I don’t recall, but I can’t believe anyone didn’t recognize that there were aliens involved, given the similarity in titles to “Escape to Witch Mountain”. On the other hand, what does Mysavak the Wonderful have to do with the aliens? Who summoned the Mist of Evil, or did the Mist somehow summon the aliens?
I clearly wrote this after reading Stephen King’s short story “The Mist” in Dark Forces. That’s what inspired the Pink Horrors, Fire Spiders, and the Mist of Evil; possibly also Crazy Crabs. I don’t know why I didn’t include stats for them under the wandering monster chart, but you can find stats later in Mist of Evil. You can see their current incarnation in the Gods & Monsters Encounter Guide.
I had obviously started including natural weather events in wandering monsters charts pretty early.
- Notes: Scenario
- Some strange lights have been buzzing the town of Savta and appearing all over the place. They seem to be coming from the west, in the middle of the Witch Mountains. This has been occurring for 3 weeks, but nothing else has happened.
- Dungeon Master’s Notes
- The lights are results of atmospheric teleporting in a region of low dimensional differential. Some aliens crashed on the moon, and used a small life-ship to travel to earth orbit. The ship is in stationary orbit over the aliens’ makeshift HQ. The teleporters only work if there is only atmosphere between the destination and start.
- Savta and Kartel
- Savta and Kartel in Witch Mountain: Notes
